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Jeanbandyite Fluorite & Chalcocite

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Jeanbandyite Fluorite & Chalcocite

Kay Robertson collection
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Pleasant Mine, Saint George Parish, Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3.9 × 3.5 cm
Description

You are bidding on a beautiful minature sample with rich clusters of jeanbandyite crystals in botryoids with purple to colorless fluorite crystals and small sharp chalcocite crystals on quartz. Exceptional sample from the Kay Robertson collection and very hard to find specimens from this locality. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Jeanbandyite

Formula: 
(Fe2+,Mn2+)[Sn4+(OH)6]
Strunz: 
4.FC.15
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Siglo Veinte Mine (Siglo XX Mine; Llallagua Mine; Catavi), Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo Province (Bustillos Province), Potosí Department, Bolivia

Fluorite

Formula: 
CaF2
Strunz: 
3.AB.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

Chalcocite

Formula: 
Cu2S
Strunz: 
2.BA.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

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